"the most expensive wristwatch ever sold. Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film ""The Color of Money"", a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), ""Harper"" (1966) and ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), as well as"
"Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and based on the play ""Indians"" by Arthur Kopit. It stars Paul Newman as William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, along with Geraldine Chaplin, Will Sampson, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel and Burt Lancaster as Bill's biographer, Ned Buntline filmed in Panavision. As in his earlier film ""MASH"", Altman skewers an American historical myth of heroism, in this case the notion"
"the much successful Newman/Haas Racing with his longtime racing competitor and friend Carl Haas, winning more than 100 races and 8 Driver's Championships in IndyCar Series, although notably the team never won the 500. The film includes footage taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the legendary 2.5 mile track. Most of the footage is from the 1968 race. The accident during the first green flag is from the 1966 race. The film earned an estimated $6.2 million in rentals in North America. It was the 16th most popular movie at the US box office that year. Quentin Tarantino, when asked"
"US and Canada and $2.2 million elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $976,000. William Bowers and James Edward Grant were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. The two BAFTA nominations were: Best Film from any source, and Glenn Ford for Best Foreign Actor. The Sheepman The Sheepman is a 1958 American western film directed by George Marshall and starring Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, and Leslie Nielsen. Gambler Jason Sweet (Ford) wins a herd of sheep in a poker game and proceeds to take them by train into the middle"
"the table read of the script, a role meant for Matt Damon was included, but he did not appear in the final version of the episode. The episode is dedicated to Paul Newman, who guest starred in ""The Blunder Years"" and died nine days before the episode aired. The Swedish and Australian bars which Bart prank calls feature numerous references. The Swedish bar is named the ""Inga-Bar Beerman"" in reference to filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The image of the barman in profile and another person in the background looking directly into the camera is a visual reference to Bergman's 1966 film"
"a home and starting a family in Westport, Connecticut. They were one of the very first Hollywood movie star couples to choose to raise their families outside California. They remained married for 50 years, until his death in 2008. They had three daughters: Elinor ""Nell"" Teresa (b. 1959), Melissa ""Lissy"" Stewart (b. 1961), and Claire ""Clea"" Olivia (b. 1965). Newman was well known for his devotion to his wife and family. When once asked about his reputation for fidelity, he famously quipped, ""Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?"" He also said that he never"
"(1969), ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"" (1972), ""The Sting"" (1973), and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's ""Cars"" as his final acting performance, with voice recordings being used in ""Cars 3"" (2017). Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open-wheel IndyCar racing. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of January 2017, these donations have totaled over US$485"
"Sometimes a Great Notion (film) Sometimes a Great Notion (also known as Never Give a Inch) is a 1971 American drama film directed by Paul Newman and starring Newman, Henry Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, and Lee Remick. The cast also includes Richard Jaeckel in an Academy Award-nominated performance. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, the first of his books to be adapted for the screen. Filmed in western Oregon during the summer it was released over a year later in The economic stability of fictional Wakonda, Oregon, is threatened"
"the unit production manager. Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden states that the ""tough, honest"" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially ""Hombre"", Newman's earlier film of 1967. Director Stuart Rosenberg altered the original ending in the script, adding ""an upbeat ending that would reprise the protagonist's (and Paul Newman's) trademark smile."" Paul Newman's character, Luke, is a decorated war veteran who is sentenced to serve two years in a Florida rural prison. He constantly defies the authorities of the facility, becoming a leader among the prisoners, as well as escaping multiple times. While the script was being developed, the"
"Hollywood was helping Paul Newman learn to play hockey for the film ""Slap Shot"". Also, since the early 1980s, he has made appearances in more than 250 films and television series, such as portraying a recurring character Tom, an aspiring lawyer in the television sitcom ""Cheers"". He also wrote a book ""The Actor’s Choice"", published by Heinemann in 1996. He served as a training coach for the United States women's national ice hockey team, especially during Olympics, from 1996 to 1998. He was a camp director for the United States National Women’s Hockey Festival from 1997 to 1999. He served"
"death in an automobile collision. Newman's first film for Hollywood was ""The Silver Chalice"" (1954). The film was a box office failure and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it. In 1956, Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the role of Rocky Graziano in ""Somebody Up There Likes Me"". In 1958, he starred in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in 1958, Newman starred in ""The Long, Hot Summer"" with Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on"
"in Ingmar Bergman's ""The Seventh Seal"" (1957), the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death; Martin in ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961); Jesus in ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965); Oktober in ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966); Karl Oskar Nilsson in ""The Emigrants"" (1971); Roy Lindberg in ""The Apple War"" (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in ""The Exorcist"" (1973); Joubert the assassin in ""Three Days of the Condor"" (1975); Ming the Merciless in ""Flash Gordon"" (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film ""Never"
"confident, he throws one on Joe's face. A nerd named Adam Simms (Austin Rogers) was sure that Joe was going to smash Billy with his ring (""The Death Ring""), which is rumored that whoever Joe punches it with dies in the eighth grade. The next day after school, Joe, Plug, and Benjy catch up with Billy as he heads home. Joe proposes a bet: Billy must eat ten worms in one day (the coming Saturday) without throwing up, and the loser has to come to school with worms in his pants and walk down the hall past everybody. Billy knows"
"(1966); ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" (1969); ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), as a young woman in a wheelchair and ""International Velvet"" (1978). Newman married actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes in 1955. She acted with Forbes in ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1960), which Forbes also scripted, and went on to appear in most of the feature films that Forbes directed, including ""The L-Shaped Room"" (1962), ""Seance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964), ""The Wrong Box"" (1966), ""The Whisperers"" (1967), ""Deadfall"" (1968), ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" (1969), ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), ""The Stepford Wives"" (1975) and ""International Velvet"" (1978). In his 1983 book ""Adventures in the"
"a way to get rid of Hewitt. The zoo is beginning to run into financial trouble and the new press agent, Peter Yates (Charles Ruggles), a man terrified of most of the zoo's animals and considered to be an alcoholic, decides to host a fundraising dinner. Gorman takes this as a perfect opportunity to dispense his vengeance by poisoning Hewitt with mamba venom. He had obtained the poison after asking the zoo's laboratory doctor, Jack Woodford (Randolph Scott), to work on finding an antitoxin for the snake's fatal bite. When Hewitt unexpectedly dies at the fundraising dinner, Evelyn accuses her"
"starred Edmond O'Brien. Newman directed George Raft in ""Lucky Nick Cain"" (1951) aka ""I'll Get You For This"" in England, distributed by Fox. Newman went to Fox where he directed ""The Guy Who Came Back "" (1951); ""Love Nest"" (1952), featuring an early supporting role for Marilyn Monroe. The studio were impressed and assigned him to larger budgeted films: ""Red Skies of Montana"" (1952) with Richard Widmark; and ""The Outcasts of Poker Flat"" (1952). Fox picked up his option and he directed ""Pony Soldier"" (1952) with Tyrone Power; and ""Dangerous Crossing"" (1953) with Michael Rennie. In 1952 it was announced"
"with the two hour TV film ""Night Games"", based on the 1970 movie ""The Lawyer"", led to the NBC TV series, ""Petrocelli"", starring Newman as a compassionate big-city lawyer, living and working in the fictional town of San Remo, Arizona (filmed in Tucson, Arizona). He was nominated for an Emmy in 1975 for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series and, in 1976, for a Golden Globe. Book: ""Petrocelli: San Remo Justice: An Episode Guide and Much More,"" by Sandra Grabman, published by BearManor Media. . Barry Newman Barry Foster Newman (born November 7, 1938) is an American actor of"
"the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's ""The Hudsucker Proxy"". Newman starred in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)"", ""The Young Philadelphians"" (1959), ""Exodus"" (1960), ""From the Terrace"", (1960), ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), ""Harper"" (1966), ""Hombre"" (1967), ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974), ""Slap Shot"" (1977), ""Absence of Malice"" (1981) and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George"
"leading them on a wild Hollywood-style chase in electric wheelchairs, he asks to be in the film. Funn and company reply with the typical Hollywood-esque ""We'll get back to you."" A newspaper ad indicates that they ""ink"" Newman to do the movie. In the process of their search for stars, the trio have a number of brief but funny misadventures, including a mixup between two German Shepherds (one trained as a seeing-eye dog, the other most assuredly not), a flying blueberry pie, and several (mostly unsuccessful) efforts by Marty Eggs to seduce various women. Their most notable encounter involves a"
"Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and based on the play ""Indians"" by Arthur Kopit. It stars Paul Newman as William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, along with Geraldine Chaplin, Will Sampson, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel and Burt Lancaster as Bill's biographer, Ned Buntline filmed in Panavision. As in his earlier film ""MASH"", Altman skewers an American historical myth of heroism, in this case the notion that noble white men fighting bloodthirsty savages won the West."
"and Lee team up to successfully transport them. Henry's severed arm is attached to the boat, giving the middle finger to all who watch. Although both Sam Peckinpah and Budd Boetticher had expressed interest in bringing Ken Kesey's novel to the screen, Richard A. Colla was signed to direct the film in May 1970. Five weeks after principal photography began, Colla left the project due to ""artistic differences over photographic concept,"" as well as a required throat operation. At the same time, leading man Paul Newman broke his ankle, and the production shut down As co-executive producer, Newman considered replacing"
"play ""The Phoenix"" at both the New York International Fringe Festival in 1999 and the Route 66 American Playwriting Competition in 2000. He also created ""I Bet You Will"" for MTV. ""I Bet You Will"" began as a popular Internet webcast of five-minute episodes featuring ordinary people doing stunts in exchange for money. Examples include eating a full jar of mayonnaise ($235USD), eating a ""worm burrito"" ($265USD), and taking shots of corn oil, Pepto-Bismol, lemon juice, hot sauce, cold chicken broth, and cod liver oil (US$450.00 for all nine shots). The webcast was a success, with over a million hits"
"""Playing for Keeps"" (1986), ""The Mosquito Coast"" (1986), ""Funny Farm"" (1988), ""Monkey Shines"" (1988), ""Hero"" (1992), ""Leprechaun"" (1993), ""The Stand"" (1994), ""Jury Duty"" (1995), ""Tom and Huck"" (1995), ""The Craft"" (1996), ""Santa with Muscles"" (1996), ""Brown's Requiem"" (1998), ""For Love of the Game"" (1999) and ""Teacher's Pet"" (2000). Newman also appeared in ""Mrs. Doubtfire"" (1993), opposite Robin Williams and Sally Field. In 1991, Newman was cast as Kalin Trose in the """" episode, """". His last television credit was an episode of ""My Name Is Earl"" in 2006. William Newman died from vascular dementia at the Hayes Manor Retirement Residence"
"Rains's butler in ""The Unsuspected"" (1947), Sheriff Clyde Boston in ""Gun Crazy"" (1949), and as a gangster in ""The Monkey Mystery"" episode of ""Adventures of Superman"" on television (1951). He also had a minor role as a slave in Cecil B. Demille's epic ""The Ten Commandments"". In 1950, Lewis and his then girlfriend Marilyn Friedman, invested $3,500 to open the Hamburger Hamlet restaurant at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Hilldale Avenue on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The restaurant was successful and grew into a chain of 24 locations. The couple's two children, David and Adam, joined them"
"the difference in the private eye character ""is the level of commitment. He has more of a sense of humor about his job."" In the title sequence, Newman dunks his head into a sinkful of ice cubes to rouse himself awake; a bit that he repeated in the 1973 film ""The Sting"". Newman reportedly followed this routine every morning in real life. The film was a hit at the box office. It launched Goldman's career as a screenwriter. The film earned $5.3 million in North American rentals in 1966. Goldman adapted another Macdonald novel, ""The Chill"", for the same producers,"
"writing children's books when he started reading to his own son. His wife Gail illustrated several of his books. His best-known book is ""How to Eat Fried Worms"" (1973), about a boy who accepts a $50 bet that he can eat 15 worms in 15 days. Although it was rejected by 23 publishers before finally coming out in print, the book sold 3 million copies and received the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Book Award. It was made into an animated TV episode of ""CBS Storybreak"" in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical"
"that they could learn to lob the ball in a convincing enough manner to make the film believable. Simón also revealed in the interview that he is proud of the visual effects in the film, especially that a pig carcass was used for the effect of the chainsaw cutting through a young woman's stomach and the slaughterhouse guts used. The film starred real-life husband and wife team Christopher George (of TV's ""The Rat Patrol"") and Lynda Day George (of TV's """"), Edmund Purdom, spaghetti-western star Frank Braña, and Paul L. Smith (""Bluto"" of Robert Altman's ""Popeye""). The original film was"
"in 1975 after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage following an accident at work in which he fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head on an iron radiator. Peter R. Newman Peter Richard Newman (4 June 1926 – 22 February 1975) was an English television screenwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge. He wrote a television play, ""Yesterday's Enemy"", which he later turned into a screenplay for Val Guest; the film version was released in 1959 by Hammer. As a three-act play, it was published by Samuel French in"
"The Serpent's Egg (film) The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 American-West German drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. It was Bergman's only Hollywood film. The title is taken from a line spoken by Brutus in Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"": ""And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would, as his kind grow mischievous; / And kill him in the shell"". ""The Serpent's Egg"" is considered one of Bergman's weaker efforts. Abel Rosenberg, an American-born Jew is an unemployed"
"of America. He lives in New York City with his wife. He has two grown sons. Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. New York magazine in 1985 dubbed him ""The Unknown King of Comedy"". His best known films include ""Blazing Saddles"", ""The In-Laws"", and ""The Freshman"". Born to a Jewish family, Bergman graduated from Binghamton University and earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation, a study of Depression-era Hollywood films, was published in 1971 by NYU Press under the title ""We're in the Money:"
"partnership of Newman and Redford. Newman had been advised to avoid doing comedies because he didn't have the light touch, but accepted the part to prove that he could handle comedy just as well as drama. He signed on the film after the producers agreed to give him top billing, $500,000 and a percentage of the profits. Newman needed a hit considering his last five films that he had made prior to ""The Sting"" had been box-office disappointments. In her 1991 autobiography ""You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"", Julia Phillips stated that Hill wanted Richard Boone to play"
"one more winter, are the final straws, and the islanders decide to evacuate to the mainland. Peter Manson reluctantly signs the petition for the government to assist in their evacuation and resettlement. As the island is being evacuated, Peter decides to go after a guillemot's egg, for which a collector had promised to pay five pounds. The egg can be found in a nest on a steep cliff, which Peter climbs down tied to a rope. As he is climbing back up, the rope frays and Peter falls to his death. His gravestone is placed on the edge of the"
"with vagrancy and put on a chain gang. This resulted in a number of the outdoor scenes' being shot at Ladd's Marina in Stockton, including the culminating conflict on the houseboat at the end of the movie. This scene where Mitchum attacks Polly Bergen's character on the houseboat was almost completely improvised. Before the scene was filmed, Thompson suddenly told a crew member: ""Bring me a dish of eggs!"" Mitchum's rubbing the eggs on Bergen was not scripted and Bergen's reactions were real. She also suffered back injuries from being knocked around so much. She felt the impact of the"